The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-03-03

passed the Senate, appropriates $780,,
600. This sum the House reduced to
1853, 600. r5e conference report fixes the
sum at $1tG 900. The conference report
was adOptad-yeas 1877, nays 9S.
Mr.. Belmont New York; presented
the conference report on the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill. The
report was agreed to.
A score of members rushed into the
space in front of the clerks desk and.
waving their bills wildly in the air,
Vociferously claimed recognition. The
uproar was great, and for a time bust
ness had to be suspended.
Mr. Barksdale (Mississippi) was
finally successful, and under q suspen-
sion of rules, he secured the passage of
the bill for printing the report of the
commission of labor.
EVENING SESSION.
After recess, Mr.. Hatch (Missouri)
presented the conference report on the
agricultural appropriation bill. There
were two important amendments placed
upon the bill as reported by the con-
ference committee, one appropriating
50,000 to enable the Commissioner of
Agriculture to continue the experiment
in the manufacture of sugar from sor-
ghum and sugar cane, and the other
Increasing from 500 900 to $500, 600 the
appropriation for carrying out the pro-
visions of the act establishing q bureau
of animal industry and authorizing
the Commissioner to use any part
of this sum deemed necessary to
prevent the spread of pleuro-
pneumonia, and in the purchase
and destruction of diseased or. exposed
animals, whenever, in his judgment, it
is essential to prevent the spread of
pleuro pneumonia from one State into
another.
There was much opposition to both of
those amendments, but the conference
report was agreed to-yeas lat, NAYS 78.
The vore was then taken on the COM
mittee's amendment. and it was de-
cided in the afirmative-yeas AZ, nays9.
The negative vote was as follows.
Berry, Cockrell, Coke, Harris, Plumb,
Vance, Van Wyck, Vest and Wilson
(Maryland).
The next amendment was the inser-
ton of the item of $4,000 for the pur-
chase of the Ericsson vessel, the Destroyer.
It was agreed to. The bill as amended,
was then passed without division.
Mr.. Hoar, from the conference COM
mittee on the Pacific Railroad inquiry
bill, made report, which was agreed
to. The bill now goes to the President.
On motion of Malone, the Senate
bill for the erection of a national
memorial bridge over the Potomac,
from Washington to Arlington, was
taken up and passed. 1t appropriates
500, 900 10 the construction of the
bridge, which is to be erected in honor
OF Lincoln and Grant. The vote was,
yeas 80. nays Is. ..--------,--
The conference report on the agricul-
tural appropriation bill was made and
agreed to.
Mr.. Dingley (Maine) moved to sus-
pend the rules and pass the Senate bill
with substitute therefor to secure
statistics, and to protect the fish
cries of the United States; to pro-
vide for the taking of testimony rela-
tive to the injuries inflicted by
the British on the citizens of the United
States engaged in the fisheries, and to
amend the shipping act of June 18th,
1886. The substitute is composed of
the substance of several bills pending in
the House, and was characterized by
Mr.. Buchanan New Jersey as con-
glomerate mass of heterogeneous in
congruities. The motion to suspend the
rules was lost.
Randall (Pennsylvania) submitted the
conference report on the sundry civil
appropriation bill. In their statement
accompany ing the report, the conferees
say that the Senate made 262 amend
ments, increasing the aggregate appro-
priation $40,386.47 over the amount of
the bill that passed the House. OF this
sum the Senate conferees have yielded
SIC, 1926. The bill as it passed the
Senate aggregated to $23, 702 ,059. The
House when it considered the Senate
amendments, added to the bill $l95, 64S,
and in the conference $4,000 was
yielded, being for the public build
ing at Portsmouth, Ohio, and
100000 was added on the &C
count of public buildings at Augusta,
Georgia, and Chattanooga, Tennessee.
The bill, therefore, as agreed upon in
the conference, aggregated $22s3S2, $50,
being 81, 500 ,078 in excess OF the bill as
it passed the House. and $279, 8i9 less
than the Jaw for the current year and So
158, 371le than the estimates. The coast
survey is left as it was last year, the
House provision of reorganization being
stricken out. The report was agreed to
without discussion.
The Senate amendment to the naval
appropriation bill was non-concurred
in, and Messrs. Herbert, Sayers and
Thomas (Illinois) were appoinit
confelees. A number of joint resolp
tons were passed for printing various
public documents.
The House then, at 1240, adjourned.